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On Angels and Messengers

Friday, April 19, 2013

ADD Tangent: This concept might make a fun party game. Go around the room, one line per person,
creating a story with song lyrics.

CAST of CHARACTERS:

Gary Indiana (Gary Indiana) -- that obnoxious carrot-top
kid from The Music Man,
secret love-child of Robert Preston and Ethel Merman. Gary is now 25years-old and sings every word that comes
out of that obnoxious Hoosier-mouth of
his. He should ask his doctor if Lyrica is right for him.

AnnieWarbucks -- now 22 years old, no longer little nor an orphan, but still
an obnoxious (yet lovable)
redhead, who has the same lyrical disorder as Gary Indiana (Gary Indiana).

The Narrator -- equally obnoxious and, alas, stricken with a
terminal earworm, the entire
contents of his brain having been displaced by song lyrics that won't go away until he reformats his hard-drive. Rightly played
by the playwright, of course, except when he's retching due to his own libretto, when MaryLou covers for
him.

ACT
ONE (Singular Sensation)

Narrator -- How shall I begin to tell the story? Talk
about the boy? Talk about the girl? Na
na NAH nah ... I write the songs! When a body meets a body, anything can
happen. Who knows? Boy-oh, Boy-oh! Something's happenin' here! Lordy, Lord I'm tellin' you.

Gary-- Monday, Monday! All alone am I. I'm Mr. Blue (wah oo wah ooo). I ain't got nobody. I've looked at clouds and I think it's gonna
rain today.Narrator -- But no one heard at all, not even a chair.

Gary-- Well these boots are made for
walkin'. Gotta walk that lonesome valley
... singin', singin' in the rain. I walk alone. All by myself. Strollin down the aven-oo, the Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Lonely Street ...

Narrator -- Over, over and over ... but no one heard at all. Here she comes ... pretty woman, walkin' down the street.

Annie -- Who's that man, just a-walkin' down the street? He knows not where he's going to. He's just a man. Oh, No! Stop (in the name of love).

Gary -- Who am I? Who am I?

Annie -- Gary Indiana! Gary
Indiana! You don't remember me, but I
remember you. Try to remember. Back in the good ol' days. We were young, and didn't have a care. Narrator -- He went away, but now he's ba-ack. Look out, look out, look out, look out. He's no good for you, foolish little girl. Annie -- Listen! Do you want know a secret? Gary Indiana (Gary Indiana.) I wanna marry you ... and we're gonna get
married.

Gary-- In the year 2525. When Jupiter aligns with Mars.

Annie -- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Gary-- It's not time to make a change. Let's spend the night together.

Annie -- R-E-S-P-E-C-T. Will
you still love me tomorrow?

Gary -- E-I-E-I-O. Got a rocket in my pocket.

Narrator -- Boy-oh, boy-oh! [deleted -- title
and lyrics from a Woody Guthrie song recorded by the Kingston Trio ... and a
line from "I Am Woman"].

Annie -- Ah! Sweet mystery of life!

Narrator -- Let's go out to the lobby.________________________________________________________________________________ACT
TWO (Turtle-Doves)